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"Six Feet Under" Pilot (2001)


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Overview

User Rating:
8.9/10   348 votes
Director:
Alan Ball
Writers:
Alan Ball (creator)
Alan Ball (written by)
Contact:
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TV Series:
"Six Feet Under" (2001)
Original Air Date:
3 June 2001 (Season 1, Episode 1)
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
On Christmas Eve, 2000, funeral-director Nathaniel Samuel Fisher is involved in a hearse-accident with a bus and is killed... more | add synopsis
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User Reviews:
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Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)

Peter Krause ... Nate Fisher

Michael C. Hall ... David Fisher
Frances Conroy ... Ruth Fisher

Lauren Ambrose ... Claire Fisher

Freddy Rodríguez ... Federico 'Rico' Diaz (as Freddy Rodriguez)
Mathew St. Patrick ... Keith Charles

Rachel Griffiths ... Brenda Chenowith

Richard Jenkins ... Nathaniel Fisher
Eric Balfour ... Claire's Meth Date

Gary Hershberger ... Kroehner Representative

Dina Waters ... Chatty Mourner
Sharon Madden ... Woman Mourner
Hayden Tank ... Young Nate
Maximillian Kesmodel ... Young David (as Maximillian Orion Kesmodel)
Dennis Anderson ... Market Clerk
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Runtime:
Argentina:60 min | 62 min (DVD version)
Certification:
Argentina:16

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
According to the Six Feet Under obituaries, Nathaniel Samuel Fisher's, the only one never to be shown on the show, is 1943-2000 (though it was mistyped to read 2001, the year which the first season's other deaths occurred in after New Year's). more
Quotes:
Brenda: Well here's my number if you ever want to, you know, go out on a real date. You know where you buy me dinner before I put out. more
Movie Connections:
Features Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Celluloid Hypnotic more

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful.
Great, 27 February 2009
10/10
Author: Juan Ignacio from Buenos Aires, Argentina

This episode, the first one of the series, is simply great. I began watching it a few days ago, and I think this is one of the greatest things there have been in television. The pilot episode doesn't get boring at any time, and keeps you awaiting for what happens in the next scene.

The characters are probably among the best I have seen in a television program. It reminds you of the film "American Beauty", also written by Alan Ball. The freak mother, with their sons: the runaway, the repressed one, the teenage girl. The initial situation (the death of the father), unleashes one situation after the other, told in an excellent way, and the inclusions of phony ads makes way for the laughs, although there are several moments that will make you laugh. The performances can't get better, neither the script.

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